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Maimul Ahsan Khan is currently Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. His expertise ranges from human rights to Muslim legal issues and the law and politics of the Middle East, Central and South Asia. Since beginning his academic career in1986, he has had extensive experience lecturing in Bangladesh and in the U.S. (1998-2006), and has authored about 20 books and a good number of scholarly articles in English, Russian, and Bengali, including Human Rights in the Muslim World: Fundamentalism, Constitutionalism, and International Politics (2003), which was described by reviewer Charles Howard as “a useful resource on constitutionalism and Islamic History, law and theology”. Professor Khan’s most recent book, Islamic Financing and Banking: From Traditional Views to Arab Spring was published by Lincoln University College Press in March 2012.

As a student in the former Soviet Union and later as a professor in Bangladesh, he refused to remain silent when he observed political interference in higher education. Endemic corruption in the established systems of governance particularly in education and the judiciary had pushed him to be a social activist “with no political ambition”.

As a leading scholar of jurisprudence and comparative law, he was Chair of the Law Department at the University of Dhaka (1997) and advocated legal reforms aimed at making university education and governance in Bangladesh less corrupt. While in the U.S. (1998-2006), he also served as a Country Specialist on Afghanistan (2000-2006) for Amnesty International.

Professor Khan was awarded his Ph.D. in 1985 from Tashkent State University for his research on jurisprudence, with special emphasis on Islamic legal postulates as applied in the constitutional development of Middle Eastern countries. He has often been invited as a guest speaker and taken part in lessons provided by different religious communities such as the US-based Mormon, Quaker, Methodist, and Bahai communities. His appreciation for communication across religions informed his book entitled The Vision and Impact of Fethullah Gülen: A New Paradigm for Social Activism (NY, 2011), which illuminates the necessity of interfaith-dialogue between world religions, an endeavor first propounded by the Parliament of the World’s Religions held in Chicago in 1893.

The Role of Islam in the Development of Constitutional Principle in the Middle Eastern Countries”, In Abstract of Papers Presented at the Conferences of Young Researchers Of Uzbekistan, USSR, 1985, Part 1,
173-174 (in Russian)